{"id":75896,"date":"2026-07-09T05:55:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/maine-democrats-plan-convention-to-replace-scandal-hit-platner-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:55:59","slug":"maine-democrats-plan-convention-to-replace-scandal-hit-platner-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/maine-democrats-plan-convention-to-replace-scandal-hit-platner-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Democrats plan convention to replace scandal-hit Platner \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate pick announced his withdrawal in angry video accusing party and media of acting as \u2018judge, jury and executioner\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Sophie Sullivan and Pablo Iglesias Maurer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The French men\u2019s national soccer team, whose star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/kylian-mbappe\">Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a> is one of the world\u2019s most outspoken athletes against far-right politicians, has been using a charter airplane company that is at the heart of the Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/09\/donald-trump-graham-platner-mitch-mcconnell-iran-midterms-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate pick announced his withdrawal in angry video accusing party and media of acting as \u2018judge, jury and executioner\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email Sophie Sullivan and Pablo Iglesias Maurer The French men\u2019s national soccer team, whose star Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 is one of the world\u2019s most outspoken athletes against far-right politicians, has &#8230; <a title=\"Maine Democrats plan convention to replace scandal-hit Platner \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/maine-democrats-plan-convention-to-replace-scandal-hit-platner-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Maine Democrats plan convention to replace scandal-hit Platner \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}